It was observed that some use cases might append old data constantly to
memtable, blocking GC of expired tombstones.
That's because timestamp of memtable is unconditionally used for
calculating max purgeable, even when the memtable doesn't contain the
key of the tombstone we're trying to GC.
The idea is to treat memtable as we treat L0 sstables, i.e. it will
only prevent GC if it contains data that is possibly shadowed by the
expired tombstone (after checking for key presence and timestamp).
Memtable will usually have a small subset of keys in largest tier,
so after this change, a large fraction of keys containing expired
tombstones can be GCed when memtable contains old data.
Fixes#17599.
Signed-off-by: Raphael S. Carvalho <raphaelsc@scylladb.com>
(cherry picked from commit 38699f6c3d)
Closesscylladb/scylladb#19551
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